Romneyworld reckoning begins — BOSTON — Advisers to Mitt Romney insisted Wednesday that they were surprised by the scale of their loss to President Barack Obama, while big-time GOP donors griped about the campaign's unflinching confidence in the final stretch.

GOP civil war: Herman Cain calls for third party — As the GOP fights itself in the wake of Mitt Romney's loss, calls for a third party emerge — It's been less than 24 hours since the polls closed and already the first shots in an emerging civil war within the conservative movement are being fired.

Obama Campaign Clawed Back After a Dismal Debate — Seven minutes into the first presidential debate, the mood turned from tense to grim inside the room at the University of Denver where Obama staff members were following the encounter. Top aides monitoring focus groups …

Romney Adviser: It Was the Messaging — Boston — A Romney adviser partly blames last night's defeat on a weak message. “Turnout was the big problem since we didn't get all of McCain's voters to the polls, but we really should have been talking more about Benghazi and Obamacare,” …

A Silver Lining and a Conundrum — I can see only one good outcome from yesterday's election: the fact that Barack Obama will be the president who inherits the mess left by Barack Obama. The economy is in awful shape; it won't get much better given Obama's policies, and may get worse.

Focus Shifts to ‘Fiscal Cliff’ — After Obama Victory, Political Leaders Strike Conciliatory Tone; Dow Falls 312 — The day after a hard-fought election that left Barack Obama in the White House and control of Congress divided between the two parties, the nation's political leaders promised …

Boeing Announces Big Layoffs in Defense Division — Boeing announced a major restructuring of its defense division on Wednesday that will cut 30 percent of management jobs from 2010 levels, close facilities in California and consolidate several business units to cut costs. — The company [BA Loading...

Kay Bailey Hutchison: GOP can't ‘throw away’ women — Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison said Thursday that her party must stop treating women as “a throw-away.” — “When we talk about women's issues and the social issues, people have to stop acting like the woman is a throw-away here …

ISRAELI OFFICIAL: ‘WE WILL NOT CAPITULATE BEFORE OBAMA.’ Warns president's reelection means Jewish state must ‘take care of its own’ — TEL AVIV — The state of Israel will not capitulate before President Obama, whose “naive” leadership has hurt the U.S., stated Danny Danon, deputy speaker of Israel's Knesset.

Little to Show for Cash Flood by Big Donors — At the private air terminal at Logan Airport in Boston early Wednesday, men in unwrinkled suits sank into plush leather chairs as they waited to board Gulfstream jets, trading consolations over Mitt Romney's loss the day before.

How did the presidential pollsters do in Florida? — Which pollsters got it right? Which pollsters got it wrong? — TAMPA BAY TIMES — Pre-Election Day polls in Florida predicting Mitt Romney would comfortably win the state's 29 electoral votes were quite wrong, it turns out.

Man behind anti-Muslim film sentenced to prison — LOS ANGELES (AP) — The California man behind an anti-Muslim film that led to violence in many parts of the Middle East was sentenced Wednesday to a year in federal prison for probation violations in an unrelated matter, then issued a provocative statement through his attorney.

2016 election: Hillary Clinton vs. Jeb Bush? — BOSTON — American politics may be headed back to the future. — Four years after the country elected a 40-something African-American newcomer named Barack to the presidency, a more familiar political order is poised to reassert itself …

After Obama win, U.S. backs new U.N. arms treaty talks — (Reuters) - Hours after U.S. President Barack Obama was re-elected, the United States backed a U.N. committee's call on Wednesday to renew debate over a draft international treaty to regulate the $70 billion global conventional arms trade.

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